I am a person who loves to connect everything, not just connecting the dots, but connecting people, stories, ideas, theologies, history to current events, personalities based on parents, and the list continues. In essence, I like everything to be One. I see Unity as Peace.
And so I connect two ideas into one blog:
One) The Gospel of today from Luke on Jesus stating his purpose not for Peace but Division
Two) What we can gain from understanding our past.
And the beautiful thing is that they can be connected in Today's first reading from Ephesians 3:17-19
"That you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."You see, there is a beauty in knowing your roots and to, in love, use our past and our ancestral past to inform ourselves on our entire personhood which bears fruit of courageously allowing us to truly Know the Lord. You see, the Lord is Truth. THE Truth which is sometimes not easy to hear and more than likely even harder to follow. But THE Truth, Jesus Christ comes for people to KNOW Him that they may have eternal Peace, not just in the past or present but FOREVER! Talk about Unity as Peace.
In hopes, that today "you may be filled with all the fullness of God" but moreso that whether or not today caused division or confliction in your life, you realize that Jesus pushes us sometimes to the uncomfortable and unwanted division as a means of understanding Truth and Eternal Peace.
Praise God!
